The name talea is a girl name . talea is a word in its own right, although a covering of a: is the repetition of rhythmic patterns, in which a certain type of late medieval european music. that is to say, someone who does not have a study of musicology is likely to see, talia, as a variant of the spelling of the hebrew name of talia. this is, as the actress tamera mowry-housley used when she gave her daughter ariah as a second name.